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Meghan Rosen

Staff Writer, Biological Sciences

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology with an emphasis in biotechnology from the University of California, Davis, and later graduated from the science communication program at UC Santa Cruz. Prior to joining Science News in 2022, she was a media relations manager at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her work has appeared in Wired, Science, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. Once for McSweeney’s, she wrote about her kids’ habit of handing her trash, a story that still makes her (and them) laugh.

All Stories by Meghan Rosen

  1. Chemistry

    Microscopy providing ‘window into the cell’ wins chemistry Nobel

    Three scientists use fluorescence and lasers to see single molecules and other tiny objects.

  2. Animals

    Looking for, not catching, prey drains big cats’ energy

    For some big cats, ambushing prey in quick attacks may ease the high energy cost of hunting, new studies show.

  3. Archaeology

    Ancient stone-tool making method arose multiple times

    Hominids in both Africa and Eurasia independently invented a flake-tool technique hundreds of thousands of years ago, countering a long-held idea in archaeology.

  4. Tech

    Hybrid robot merges flier with two snakelike machines

    A helicopter robot can airlift snakelike search-and-rescue bots out of tight situations.

  5. Tech

    Hopping robot powered by explosions

    A soft-bodied robot that can jump with the help of an explosion could one day aid search-and-rescue operations.

  6. Tech

    Octobot uses webbed arms to swim faster

    Octopus-inspired robot could one day help researchers observe underwater ecosystems.

  7. Paleontology

    Fossils push back origins of modern mammals

    Fossils of three newly identified early mammals from China suggest that the common ancestor of today’s mammals lived over 200 million years ago.

  8. Archaeology

    Pyramid builders could have used rolling blocks

    Instead of sliding blocks on a ramp, ancient Egyptians could have rolled the massive bricks to the pyramids, a physicist suggests.

  9. Paleontology

    ‘Dinosaur 13’ details custody battle for largest T. rex

    Documentary details nasty custody battle over the dinosaur nicknamed Sue, the largest T. rex skeleton ever found.

  10. Paleontology

    World’s largest dinosaur discovered

    A plant-eating dinosaur named Dreadnoughtus schrani has claimed the record for most massive land animal discovered to date.

  11. Health & Medicine

    Rabies races up nerve cells

    By hijacking a transporter protein and hitting the gas, the disease-causing rabies virus races up long nerve cells that stretch through the body, a new study finds.

  12. Life

    Gut bacteria may prevent food allergies

    In mice, gut bacteria blocked food from seeping out of the intestines and triggering an immune reaction in the bloodstream.